The first is generally copied to the EFI partition but the second isn’t. The second one contains all Windows Executive services so good luck booting without it. The windows folder also contains explorer, which is need if you want a graphical desktop, and most drivers.
Who said anything about being without them? It was only stated the windows folder was added to a RAR archive. Compressing files into an archive doesn’t remove them, it just creates compressed copies.
Making a rar archive of your windows folder doesn’t leave your OS unbootable…
These two would beg to differ:
C:\Windows\EFI\bootmgr.efi
C:\Windows\System32\ntoskrnl.exe
The first is generally copied to the EFI partition but the second isn’t. The second one contains all Windows Executive services so good luck booting without it. The windows folder also contains explorer, which is need if you want a graphical desktop, and most drivers.
Who said anything about being without them? It was only stated the windows folder was added to a RAR archive. Compressing files into an archive doesn’t remove them, it just creates compressed copies.
and he had space on a “completely full” disk to save an archive of a 40GB windows folder.
Wait… Do you guys think someone would really do that? Go onto the internet and tell lies?
I’ll assume it’s a typo. for now.